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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 2

Increasing cannonading reported to be in progress South of Dorrar. Germans have established a…

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King Under Fire. His House Wounded by Piece of Shrapnel

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 4

A spur of mountains on the left bank of the Isonzo has become historic. The King of Italy wishing to be present at the fight proceeding close at hand, left…

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Admiration for British Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 4

"The greatest admiration for the British soldier it expressed. A German officer told me that his men would rather meet any company of men than…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

Heavy fighting on both banks of the Tigris on the 7th resulted in the retreat of the Turks, who fell back on Orah with the…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 7

The leaders of the Labor party are in consultation with the Cabinet on the Compulsion Bill. A satisfactory adjustment of the…

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Queanbeyan War Service Committee

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

President: Mr. F. P. Woodward, Mayor. Hon. Secretaries: Messrs. J. Ridley and J. Keeffe…

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The War. To-day's Cables. London

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

An Athens message to Rome states that the attack by the Teutonics on the Entent's positions had begun by the bombardment of the…

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Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 17 January 1916 · page 2

The Servian Government has arrived at the island of Corfu. The Russian forces have…

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£21 for Blind Soldiers' Fund

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 17 January 1916 · page 2

The Red Cross Society took the above amount in connection with their last Saturday evenings hoop-la. The splendid…

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War Finance

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 1

If a great national duty has been thrust upon us to furnish "more and more men" to crush the Prussian junker—and this is…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 8

Cettingne's days are numbered. It is impossible to succour and re victual the Montenegrin army. The motion in the House of…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 3

A great fire raged in Bergen, an important Norwegian seaport on the west coast. Thousands of people lost their homes…

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Queanbeyan War Service Committee

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 2

President: Mr. F. P. Woodward, Mayor. Hon. Secretaries: Messrs. J. Ridley and J. Keeffe…

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Ruin of War. the Artois Battlefield

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 3

Mr. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle," dscribing the battlefield in Artois, says: "It is the most…

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Russia's Part in the Great War

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 8

The "Russky Invalid," the Russian military organ after more than a year of war, remarked that it was necessary to…

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War News. (Continued from another page)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 7

There is increasing evidence of food shortage in Germany and Austria. A neutral traveller, writing to the "Times," quotes…

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The War. To-day's Cables. London

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 2

An Athens correspondent says it is reported that Montenegro has signed an armistice with Austria. 'If is officially stated that a British…

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Fiendish Sniper. German Murders Our Wounded

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 4

A British soldier, recently returned home wounded, tells an interesting story of the ingenuity of the German snipers. This particular sniper, whom…

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Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 2

The New York World's London correspondent says alarming reports of the condition in Greece has been received from…

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Fiendish Sniper. German Murders Our Wounded

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 5

A British soldier recently returned home wounded, tells an interesting story of the ingenuity of the German snipers. This…

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